Publications

This 48-page guide will help growers and users identify the most prominent disease problems affecting ornamental plants and how to treat them. The guide also contains information on pesticides registered for control of diseases affecting woody ornamentals and herbaceous perennials in Nebraska.

Sections include:

• Developing a successful disease management program
• Host/pest guide to plant diseases on herbaceous perennials
• Select agent and high risk pathogen list for woody ornamentals and herbaceous perennials
• Woody ornamental hosts and diseases, and herbaceous perennial hosts and diseases
• General disease guide on woody ornamental and herbaceous perennials
• Fungicide/bactericide information

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Construction of a new feedlot or expansion of an existing feedlot requires planning.

This 16-page Extension Circular covers the entire planning process and covers:

• Initial site planning and elements to consider in construction • Pen size and arrangement
• Lighting, fencing, gates, and wind protection
•  Runoff control regulations, groundwater issues, and configuring a control system
• Odor and air quality
• Diversions, collection channels, and drains
• Holding ponds and outlets
• Land application
• Vegetative treatment systems

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This Extension Circular provides knowledge of the basic plant growth processes - namely photosynthesis, respiration, and transpiration - important for gardeners and professional landscape managers to understand how the environment and management influence plant growth and development. Learn More

Information on essential plant nutrients, movement of nutrients in the soil and in the plant, and fertilizers. Learn More

A landscape is an investment of time and money that can be a beautiful, functional, and satisfying living space. Gardeners and landscape managers implementing integrated pest management strategies through good judgment in plant selection, site preparation, and planting practices will reduce insect, disease, and wildlife damage and will help ensure the growth and longevity of the investment. Learn More

This series examines various precision agriculture technologies, providing detailed information and illustrations to better understand how they can be applied to today’s farming operations. Learn More

Research results from specialists across the Great Plains, along with grower interviews provide information on proso millet varieties, weed control, cost of production, and marketing. Updates from the 1995 edition include new sections on water use and yield and growth rate. Under the harvesting section, information has been added about harvesting with a stripper header.

Also new are seven farmer-to-farmer interviews where proso growers share their experiences with the crop, including why they grow it and how they grow and harvest it. The growers are from Colorado, western Nebraska, Wyoming, and South Dakota. Published by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension, with expertise from Colorado State University, South Dakota State University, the University of Wyoming and the USDA-ARS Central Great Plains Research Station, this 20-page guide offers resources on a full range of proso millet topics. Topics include seed selection, planting and emergence issues, how proso millet fits into various crop rotations, selecting and preparing the field, growth rate, combating weeds, harvesting and marketing.

Research charts include:

• · Proso millet production
• · Feed value of corn, proso millet, grain sorghum and wheat in beef cattle
• · Nitrogen recommendations for proso millet
• · Proso millet grain yield following four different recrop strategies after the loss of winter wheat to hail
• · Phosphorus and Potassium recommendations for proso millet

8 1/2" x 11"; 20 pages

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Understanding the physical and chemical properties of soil is essential for good plant selection and management practices. Learn More

Taking the necessary steps to protect landscape plants and the soils that support them is a good investment. Learn More